Re: [PATCH]: Fix fs modules on sparc64 build with newer gcc

[David Miller]

From: Pavel Roskin <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:19:42 -0400

> On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 00:58 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> > Actually, changes to configure.ac affect other users as well.  Users of
>> > other architectures would have to run those checks.
>> 
>> And what kind of problems would that cause?  The symbols would
>> not be found, the test wouldn't pass, and other platforms don't
>> use the resulting config.h defines as well.  Only the sparc64
>> build uses this stuff.
> 
> The only problem that it will slow down the configure script.

This is not a serious issue.  The configure run is very compact
and efficient and my changes aren't going to materially change
this in any way whatsoever.

> By the way, the checks for those functions should be done with the
> target compiler, that is after the second occurrence of CC="$TARGET_CC"
> in configure.ac.

Sure, I can fix that.